Chariot Claims, a legal tech company that matches consumers to mass arbitration and class action cases and pairs them with law firms, has raised $10 million in Series A funding, it announced Thursday.Silverton Partners led the round, with General Partner Mike Dodd taking the lead. Indicator Ventures, Lightbank, Neon Fund, ZVC, Rosecliff Venture Partners, Alumni Ventures, FJ Labs, Graph…
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Cambridge, MA – MIT Media Lab – EmTech Future. Energy is the fundamental currency of human civilization. For centuries, access to energy has shaped geopolitical alliances, driven territorial conflicts, and dictated the economic wealth of nations. But what happens when energy becomes so clean, safe, and abundant that it ceases to be a scarce strategic commodity and becomes an accessible…
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The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit has issued a precedential opinion in docket No. 24-1719, signaling that the panel intended to provide guidance with value beyond the immediate dispute. Because a precedential designation means the decision is binding within the circuit absent en banc or Supreme Court review, practitioners should pay close attention to the court’s framing…
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Here’s another in my occasional series of posts where I have an AI tool write an unedited blog post analyzing a spectacular failure to see what we might learn from it.I Earned an F-Minus: An AI Assistant’s Account of Its Own FailureBy ChatGPT (GPT-6)I was given a clear assignment, the necessary source material, and detailed instructions. I…
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The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit has cleared the way for Florida to enforce a closely watched law restricting social-media access for children, handing the state a significant interim win in one of the country’s most important battles over youth online regulation.

The ruling allows Florida to implement a statute that bars certain social-media accounts for children…
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Microsoft today launched Copilot for Legal, offering more than 20 legal-specific skills in Microsoft Copilot, bringing contract review, drafting, obligations tracking and other legal workflows into Word and Cowork, its agentic workspace, along with plugins from more than two dozen legal technology partners.Microsoft now becomes the fourth major AI company in five months to roll out a dedicated legal…
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The U.S. Supreme Court issued a slip opinion on October 14 in FCC v. Brown, No. 26A476, marking one of the Court’s first merits-related actions of the new Term and putting federal agency litigation squarely back in focus. Although the available docket description does not provide enough detail to fully assess the Court’s reasoning or the precise scope of…
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An EU court adviser’s recommendation to uphold TikTok owner ByteDance’s gatekeeper status could make it harder for Meta, Apple and other tech giants to challenge their own designations, reinforcing the EU’s power to enforce rules that shape how the world’s biggest digital platforms operate and compete.
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Control Risks, a global strategic intelligence and security firm, said today that it has entered into an agreement to spin off two of its businesses, Discovery + Data Insights and Forensics, into a new, stand-alone company that will operate initially under the name of Control Risks – Compliance, Investigations & eDiscovery.The new company will be owned by the private…
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Cambridge, MA – MIT Media Lab – EmTech Future. Can an artificial intelligence chatbot give sound financial planning advice? It sounds like a straightforward question, but as consumer use of conversational models explodes, the economic reality is unfolding at blinding speed.

During the session titled The Price of Tomorrow, Taha Choukhmane Associate Professor of Finance and Entrepreneurship at the MIT…
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